Consultant and actuary Jardine Reeves Brown has appointed Stewart McLean as a senior consultant.
McLean is joining the company to support its financial services division.
He will be based in the firm's London office and be responsible for advising clients on financial planning solutions.
McLean joins Jardine Reeves Brown from RK Harrison Financial Planning where he supervised a team specialising in employee benefits.
Standards setting body Origo is piloting a digital certificate system in a bid to offer IFAs and providers security on the internet.The trial is seeking to allow information transfers and services to be carried securely over the internet via a single platform common to all IFAs and providers.Digital certificate specialist Inter-Clear beat the likes of […]
Edinburgh Fund Managers has raised £50.4m for its new Edinburgh Income and Value Trust.The split capital investment trust achieved the total through the placing of ordinary and zero dividend preference shares and bank borrowings. Dealing in the shares is expected to commence on April 8.The trust's objective is to achieve growth in income and capital. […]
Edinburgh Fund Managers' funds under management fell to £6.6bn from £7.3bn as profits plunged by 31 per cent.Pre-tax profits have fallen to £11.7m from £16.9m as the fund manager was hit by the continuing turmoil in emerging marketsIt was further hit by Bank of Scotland's decision to switch 40 per cent of its £1.1bn fund […]
The Association of Unit Trusts and Investment Funds has called for an independent enforcement committee to check the powers of the Financial Services Authority. Appearing before the Parliamentary committee scrutinising the Financial Services and Markets Bill, Autif representative and Fidelity managing director Marc Sylvain called for an independent body with an independent chairman.He told the […]
After a flat year for European equities, in which the Artemis European Growth Fund outperformed, manager Philip Wolstencroft is (cautiously) optimistic about 2016.
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Work and pensions select committee member and Labour MP Ruth George has called for the parliamentary pension scheme to divest from fossil fuels. The MP for High Peak put her name to the Divest Parliament pledge which is a cross-party campaign to clean up the investments in politicians’ pension schemes. MPs are automatically enrolled in […]
It was announced in last year’s Autumn Budget that, from April 2019, tax will be charged on gains made by non-UK residents on the disposal of all types of UK immovable property. At the time of the announcement, HM Revenue & Customs also produced a technical note setting out the scope of the new charge […]
O&M Pension Solutions has changed its systems ahead of an October deadline to help advisers meet new regulations around transfer value analysis reports. From 1 October, the FCA’s new rules mean transfer value analysis reports will be replaced by a combination of a “transfer value comparator” and an “appropriate pension transfer analysis” The transfer value comparator is […]